Appeal No. 2006-0558
Application 09/800,113
French does explicitly teach more than the examiner and appellant
has apparently realized, and Suzuki may be fairly characterized
as examiner has generally done.
Corresponding to the teachings of temporary stores or
archival stores in French, Suzuki shows in various figures as
well as discusses the use of print spoolers. This is a well
known temporary storage concept within the computer arts,
typically including magnetic disk and drum to temporarily store
data for output to high speed printers. As to the concept of
temporarily storing formatted data, note that shared memory store
29 in figure 2 of Suzuki, the use of a spooler 35 in this figure
and the use of temporary storage registers and spooling functions
in the functional description flow charts of figures 18 and 19,
which depict the functionality of printer drivers. Additionally,
intermediate storage capabilities are illustrated in figures 5,
8, and 9 of Suzuki as well. The printer driver 105 in figure 15
utilizes a printer spool 157 which temporary stores data for
transmission to a printer when the operating system permits this
or otherwise recognizes a request from a printer of its
availability. Appellant’s own comments at the bottom of page 9
of the principal brief on appeal appear to indicate that he
recognizes that the printer driver in Suzuki formats data for
printer output. We also do not agree with appellant’s view
expressed at page 10 of the principal brief that Suzuki does not
disclose a formatted file being stored for extraction by an
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